Policy adviser, former high ranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. I know dish can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writeings and was the First American official who reveal what the chinese were telling themselves behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public but how they wanted to be friend with the world, and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militarys view of the peoples republic of china. His book is a landmark book, most recent book is the hundred year marathon chinas secret strategy to replace america as global super power. This book is really a fascinating look and is probably one of the only places in public where youll find information about chinese defectors, people from within the Chinese Communist party system who reveal what is going on there. Before mike speak is
Dealerships and other businesses boarded up windows and sent employees home early. You can see what happened here 24 hours ago. This lot sustained most damage and those businesses are trying to avoid have this happen again with demonstrations planned this afternoon and this evening. We have video from 24 hours ago when this damage was actually being brought to these cars. Demonstration that were faceful at first, turned violent after vandals hiding in the mob came out after dark and make this one of oaklands most destructive marches. Hardest hit was these dealerships. He hundred city workers have been out helping businesses clean up the mess, specially the small family owned businesses that dont have this sort of cleanup in the budget. This morning the mayor and police chief spoke hoping to remind oakland that damage was called by a very small group of people with rocks in their pockets and malice in their hearts disturbed what was otherwise a very positive day. Theres no further damag